2024 Ontario Made Manufacturing Day

Ray Minato, President & Founder, Inertia

Inertia is a leading Contract Design and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) specializing in medical and diagnostic devices.

Under Ray’s leadership, Inertia has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 50 Best Workplaces and is celebrated for its world-class customer service, boasting a stellar Client Net Promoter Score of 81 over the last five years. With offices in Toronto, Boston, and Guangzhou, Inertia has supported medical device and diagnostics companies for over two decades, offering expert design, engineering, manufacturing, and even investment in breakthrough hardware products that the world truly needs.

Jackie Korecki, Interim Chief Operating Officer, Supply Ontario

Jackie is responsible for the Enterprise Vendor of Record Program (over 75 contracts available for commonly used goods and services), for Advisory services for Ministries, including using advanced procurement strategies to solve government problems, and for vendor outreach for doing business with Ontario as well as supporting functions such as reporting.  Jackie is also responsible for the end-to-end supply chain for the Provincial Stockpile of Personal Protective Equipment and Critical Supplies.

Jackie is a seasoned public sector executive with extensive experience in the Ontario Public Sector, most recently as Assistant Deputy Minister of Supply Chain Ontario in the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery.  In this role, Jackie led pre-pandemic engagement activities related to Supply Chain Centralization where her passion for the vision of Supply Ontario originated.

Sunita Chander, Chief Strategy, Programs and Partnerships Officer, Supply Ontario

As Chief of Strategy, Programs and Partnerships, Sunita is responsible for strategic planning, monitoring and reporting, policy development and implementation, governance, stakeholder relations and communications.

Sunita joined Supply Ontario from the Ministry of Finance, where she most recently held the position of Assistant Deputy Minister of the Strategy, Stewardship and Program Policy Division. In this role, Sunita provided important leadership in the delivery of COVID-19 programs, ensured an effective relationship and alignment with the Canada Revenue Agency, and provided leadership for a comprehensive policy review and consultation around the Ministry’s tobacco tax strategies.